JENNIFER HUDSON WILL MAKE HER BROADWAY DEBUT IN “THE COLOR PURPLE”
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JENNIFER HUDSON WILL MAKE HER BROADWAY DEBUT IN “THE COLOR PURPLE”
January 9, 2015“ALADDIN” ON BROADWAY PAYS TRIBUTE TO ROBIN WILLIAMS
August 13, 2014“ALADDIN” ON BROADWAY PAYS TRIBUTE TO ROBIN WILLIAMS
http://ppc.broadway.com/buzz/177085/aladdins-james-monroe-iglehart-leads-moving-tribute-to-film-genie-robin-williams/
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July 17, 2014FIRST LOOK
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BRAVO: Don’t Be Tardy (Premiere) at 9pm
E!: Untold with Maria Menounos (Premiere) at 8pm
FX: Married (Premiere) at 10pm
FX: You’re The Worst (Premiere) at 10:30pm
HGTV: Genevieve”s Renovation (Premiere) at 11pm and 11:30pm
NICKELODEON: 2014 Kids’ Choice Sports Awards at 8pm
SPORTSMAN: Camp Stew (Premiere) at 8pm
USA: Rush (Premiere) at 9pm
USA: Satisfaction (Premiere) at 10pm
VH1: Dating Naked (Premiere) at 9pm
VH1: Candidly Nicole (Premiere) at 10pm
VH1: LeAnn and Eddie (Premiere) at 10:30pm
No thanks, said Time Warner Inc. to an $80 billion takeover offer from Rupert Murdoch‘s 21st Century Fox. The media company said in a statement Wednesday that accepting the proposal was not in the best interests of Time Warner or its stockholders, since the company’s strategic plan will create more value “and is superior to any proposal that 21st Century Fox is in a position to offer.” Time Warner also cited “considerable strategic, operational and regulatory risks.” 21st Century Fox confirmed it made the bid, adding that the companies aren’t in discussions.
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Saying it was “embarrassed,” Comcast apologized to Ryan Block and his wife, Veronica Belmont, after a recording of Block ‘s frustrating attempt to cancel their cable service went viral. When the cable provider’s customer retention specialist refused to take no for answer (“I’m really ashamed to see you go to something that can’t give you what we can”), tech journalist Block posted eight minutes of the call online. “The way in which our representative communicated with them is unacceptable and not consistent with how we train our customer service representatives,” said a statement from the company. “We are investigating this situation and will take quick action.”
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NBC‘s Saturday Night Live didn’t renew the contracts of featured players Noel Wells and John Milhiser, who joined the late night sketch show last season. Brooks Wheelan tweeted his exit on Monday: FIRED FROM NEW YORK, IT’s SATURDAY NIGHT!
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New soapy Tyler Perry drama If Loving You is Wrong (sex, scandals, secrets) premieres on OWN Tuesday, September 9 with back-to-back episodes at 9p. Perry hit The Haves and the Have Nots is currently airing in the net’s Tuesdays-at-9p slot.
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NBC is slipping in a sneak preview of Debra Messing crime dramedy The Mysteries of Laura after the season finale of hit competition show America’s Got Talent on Wednesday, September 17 at 10p. Laura settles into its regular timeslot September 24 at 8p.
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Joan Rivers and crew weigh in on the hottest styles of Y2K in Fashion Police: 2000 Flashback. E! special episode airs Friday, July 18 at 9p.
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Little Women: LA will be back for a sophomore season on Lifetime. The series, which last week reached a series-high of 1.4 million total viewers, wraps season one Tuesday, July 22 at 10p.
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Season seven of Syfy special effects makeup competition Face Off launches Tuesday, July 22 at 9p with a shocking double elimination, and an interactive social element, “Tweet Off: The Fan Favorite Sweepstakes.”
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Cote de Pablo will star in CBS mini-series The Dovekeepers, from exec producers Roma Downey and Mark Burnett (The Bible). De Pablo left the net’s NCIS a year ago after eight seasons.
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Dermot Mulroney (My Best Friend’s Wedding) has joined Showtime‘s Shameless as a guest star in a season-long story arc. Season five launches in 2015.
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Peter Shinkida (Falling Skies) will have a major recurring role in Netflix superhero drama Daredevil, premiering in 2015.
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BROADWAY
Holler If Ya Hear Me will close on Broadway on Sunday July 20, 2014.
http://www.broadway.com/buzz/176456/holler-if-ya-hear-me-starring-tonya-pinkins-and-saul-williams-shutters-on-broadway/?utm_source=newsletter-7-16-14&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Buzzline
FIRST LOOK/ ON TV/ BROADWAY
July 3, 2014FIRST LOOK
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TELEMUNDO: La Impostora (Finale) at 8pm
BROADWAY
Ken Watanabe will join Kelli O’Hara on Broadway in The King and I.
http://ppc.broadway.com/buzz/176566/hello-young-lovers-ken-watanabe-joins-kelli-ohara-on-broadway-in-the-king-and-i/
Vanessa Williams, Julian Ovenden, & Lauren Worsham will lead New York Philharmonic’s Show Boat.
http://ppc.broadway.com/buzz/176597/cant-help-lovin-them-vanessa-williams-julian-ovenden-lauren-worsham-will-lead-new-york-philharmonics-show-boat/
FIRST LOOK/ ON TV/ BROADWAY
June 19, 2014FIRST LOOK
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ABC: Rookie Blue (Premiere) at 9pm
ID: Southern Fried Homicide (Premiere) at 10pm
SUNDANCE: Rectify (Premiere) at 9pm
SYFY: Defiance (Premiere) at 8pm
SYFY: Dominion (Premiere) at 9pm
NBC‘s playing hardball, pitting a new episode of summer hit America’s Got Talent (instead of the planned repeat) against the 9p-11p premiere of ABC singing competition Rising Star on Sunday. NBC is also powering up the night with a “Showstopping Sunday” stunt, featuring attempts to break world records (jumping over moving cars, diving into fire), airing as interstitials hosted by Talent judge Howie Mandel throughout the night.
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Carson Daly (The Voice) and Mindy Kaling (The Mindy Project) will lend an assist to Television Academy chairman and CEO Bruce Rosenblum for the reveal of the 66th Primetime Emmys nominees, selected for the first time via online voting. The announcement will be streamed live on Emmys.com on Thursday, July 10 at 8:40a. New key art was unveiled Wednesday, showing Emmy off as “elegant, powerful and triumphant.”
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Tuesday’s World Cup match between Brazil and Mexico drew more than 68 million Facebook interactions, from 33 million users. Brazil had the most active users, followed by the U.S.
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HBO vampire drama True Blood could morph into a musical. Series composer Nathan Barr told the Associated Press at an event Tuesday night that he’s pitched the idea to HBO and show creator Alan Ball, and hopes to present a workshop version of the show next year. True Blood star Stephen Moyer, who played Captain Von Trapp in NBC‘s Sound of Music Live! special last year, said he lent a hand with the project proposal. Blood’s seventh and final TV season launches Sunday, June 22 at 9p.
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Jay Leno landed the 17th annual Mark Twain Prize for American humor, to be presented at a gala at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC on October 19. Like Twain, “no one was too high or low” to escape Leno’s wit, said Kennedy Center chairman David Rubenstein, “and we are all better for it.” Last year’s honoree was Carol Burnett. Ceremony airs on PBS Sunday, November 23.
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Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip will tour the Game of Thrones set next week during a visit to Northern Ireland, tweeted the monarchy. The HBO drama is credited with creating over 900 full-time and 5700 part-time jobs.
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Al Roker Entertainment developed PSAs to raise awareness of the work the Coast Guard Foundation does on behalf of the U.S. Coast Guard and their families. “I have always admired the invaluable work of the men and women in the U.S. Coast Guard,” Al Roker, CEO of ARE. “It has been an extraordinary experience for us to capture their hard work in the Coast Guard series.” The company’s Coast Guard Cape Disappointment/Pacific Northwest starts the second half of its premiere season on The Weather Channel Monday, June 23 at 9p.
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ABC ordered a 13-ep season five of Extreme Weight Loss from Eyeworks USA, topped with three franchise “Love Can’t Weight” specials, about couples slimming down for their weddings.
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AMC marks Independence Day with a “Dead, White and Blue” weekend. All four seasons of zombie drama Walking Dead will air back to back starting Friday, July 4 at 9a; special Talking Dead Season 5 Preview caps the weekend, Sunday, July 6 at 9p. The following week, AMC is airing two Dead docs from Big Machine: Inside The Walking Dead on Tuesday, July 8 at 10p, and Inside the Walking Dead: Walker University Tuesday, July 15 at 10p.
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Revolt airs two-hour doc Happy on the Ground: 8 Days at Grammy Camp, a behind-the-scenes look at students participating in the Grammy Foundation’s music industry camp, on Sunday, June 22 at 7p and 10p. A Revolt Live sneak preview precedes it on Thursday, June 19 at 5p.
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Craig Frank (Mixology) has joined upcoming CW thriller The Messengers as a series regular. He had guest-starred in the pilot.
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History added to the season three cast of Vikings: Lothaire Bluteau (The Tudors), Kevin Durand (The Strain) and Morgane Polanski (The Ghost) join previously announced Ben Robson (Dracula: The Dark Prince).
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America’s Got Talent‘s solid 2.6 rating/9 share among A18-49 on NBC Tuesday was even with last week, but The Night Shift lost two tenths in the demo (1.3/4), according to Nielsen.
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ABC‘s Extreme Weight Loss, thrust last minute in the slot the net had reserved for game six of the NBA finals (thanks, Miami), returned with little promotion to a meager .8 A18-49 rating, down 33 percent from the last original.
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BROADWAY
Holler If Ya Hear Me officially opens on Broadway tonight. It uses the lyrics of Tupac Shakur to tell an original story.
http://ppc.broadway.com/buzz/176426/here-we-go-turn-it-up-holler-if-ya-hear-me-opens-on-broadway/
FIRST LOOK/ ON TV/ BROADWAY
March 13, 2014FIRST LOOK
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A&E: Breaking Boston (Premiere) at 10pm
FOX: Hell’s Kitchen (Premiere) at 8pm
MTV: Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory (Finale) at 10:30pm
TBS: King of the Nerds (Finale) at 10pm
More Bang for their bucks: CBS renewed television’s most-watched comedy through the 2016-2017 season. “Comedy is a big part of our schedule, and The Big Bang Theory is the biggest comedy force on television,” said Nina Tassler, chairman, CBS Entertainment. “This multi-year deal further strengthens our network’s position for future seasons.”
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He made ’em laugh – and now they’re looking into health insurance. Since President Obama’s interview on Funny or Die with Zach Galifianakis, traffic for Healthcare.gov has surged 40 percent, White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett told CBS This Morning on Tuesday.
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Comedy Central‘s Key & Peele isn’t just coming back for a fourth season – an animated spinoff is also in development, based on the Vandaveon & Mike characters. The third season of the sketch comedy averaged 2 million total viewers and was first in M18-34 Wednesdays at 10:30p.
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Actor/author/host/father-of-Robin Alan Thicke (Growing Pains) landed a reality sitcom at TVGN. Unusually Thicke focuses Thicke’s much-younger wife, Tanya and 16-year-old son, Carter, along with appearances by an assortment of celebrity friends (hi, David Hasselhoff!) and family. Launch date is Wednesday, April 16 at 10p.
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The dangers of meeting over the Internet are explored in two specials airing on TLC. Cyber Stalkers offers reenactments of online connections gone wrong (Wednesday, April 9 at 10p), and Web of Deceit follows private investigators untangling a web of online lies (Wednesday, April 16 at 10p).
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Logo TV is running a St. Patrick’s Day programming block with a different slant (but still lots of drinking): “St. Patsy’s Day.” The marathon of Absolutely Fabulous eps featuring over-imbiber Patsy Stone kicks off at 10a and runs until 4p.
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Aloe Blacc (“Wake Me Up”) and American Authors (“Best Day of My Life”) will perform on Nickelodeon‘s 27th Annual Kids’ Choice Awards, airing Saturday, March 29 at 8p.
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Season 25 of The Challenge has 28 players expecting to form alliances and outwit another team to snag a $350,000 prize – only to learn they’re on their own. MTV‘s The Challenge: Free Agents premieres Thursday, April 10 at 10p.
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Nic Bishop (Body of Proof) has joined USA‘s Covert Affairs for its fifth season. The Universal Cable Productions series returns in summer 2014.
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Nickelodeon vet Keke Palmer (True Jackson, VP) will recur on season two of Showtime‘s Masters of Sex. Production begins this month in LA.
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Once Upon a Time‘s Rose McIver (“Tinker Bell”) won the lead in CW drama pilot iZombie, based on the DC Comics strip.
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ABC enjoyed a ratings lift on Tuesday. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. got a three-tenths boost (2.1/7 A18-49) versus last week, according to Nielsen, Trophy Wife was up one tenth (.9/3) and Mind Games boasted a two-tenths jump, to .8/3. NBC powerhouse The Voice was down six-tenths of a point, to 3.5/12 among A18-49, but that was still enough to easily claim the demo for the night.
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Glee‘s move from Thursdays appears to be doing the Fox series no favors. The show dropped to a series low in the A18-49 demo, .9/3.
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The season finale of OWN‘s The Haves and the Have Nots on Tuesday drew a network record 3.6 million total viewers, ranking as the night’s number one cable telecast among W25-54 (2.75).
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Rizzoli & Isles delivered more than 4.7 million viewers to rank as basic cable’s most-watched program on Tuesday, reports TNT. The drama scored 1.4 million A25-54 in Live + Same Day delivery (up 43 percent vs. last week) and 1.1 million A18-49 (up 31 percent), its strongest deliveries so far this winter.
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BROADWAY
Rocky officially opens on Broadway tonight.
http://ppc.broadway.com/buzz/174950/the-italian-stallion-enters-the-broadway-ring-happy-opening-night-to-andy-karl-the-cast-of-rocky/
FIRST LOOK/ ON TV/ BROADWAY
February 20, 2014FIRST LOOK
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ABC: The Taste (Finale) at 8pm
WE TV: Braxton Family Values (Finale) at 9pm
WE TV: SWV Reunited (Finale) at 10pm
The Voice coach CeeLo Green announced on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that he will not be returning to the NBC singing competition. “I’m not coming back at all,” said Green. “I just don’t want to wear out my welcome there.” While Green was not scheduled to be a coach for this season, he has appeared on four past seasons. Usher and Shakira, who replaced Green and Christina Aguilera for season four but not season five, return with Adam Levine and Blake Shelton for season six premiering Monday, February 4 at 8p.
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During this week’s American Idol live shows (Tuesday and Wednesday at 8p), Fox made it harder for fans to skip certain commercials, with live behind-the-scenes footage from the stage and judge’s table airing alongside the ads airing during four ad breaks.
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Country music net CMT wants to rope in new talent with a casting website. Submissions can be made here for anyone wanting to flaunt their “country swagger”; VP of casting Zena Van Ackeren will serve as administrator for the site.
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ITV continues its acquisitions spree with the announcement Wednesday that it has acquired a majority stake in independent producer DiGa Vision (Teen Wolf), launched in 2011 by former MTV execs Tony DiSanto and Liz Gateley. “They have developed a brilliant understanding of pop culture and really know what appeals to the key teenage and young adult demographic – which is supported by their online, mobile and social media strategy,” said Paul Buccieri, managing director, ITV Studios International and president and CEO, ITV Studios US Group.
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Getting On is getting a sophomore run on HBO. The net ordered six more eps of the hospital comedy starring Laurie Metcalf (Roseanne) and Niecy Nash (Reno 911), which ended its first critically acclaimed run in December.
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TLC brings back a second season of America’s Worst Tattoos with back-to-back eps on Thursday, March 27 at 10p. Bad ink includes an Ace Ventura stamp and a pink elephant.
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Medical documentary series Sydney ER returns to Discovery Fit & Health for a second season on Friday, March 7 at 9p. The premiere episode of the Eyeworks Australia production chronicles the case of a hip hop artist who was stabbed in the chest.
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Season three of Bravo‘s Million Dollar Listing New York launches Wednesday, April 2 at 9p. Season two of the real estate reality show averaged 1.4 million total viewers, up 23 percent from its first go-round. The net’s Married to Medicine comes back for season two on Sunday, April 6 at 9p, after racking up over 1.9 million total viewers during its first run.
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Jada Pinkett Smith (The Matrix) has been cast as a sadistic gangster boss in Fox drama project Gotham, based on DC Comics characters. Ben McKenzie stars as Detective James Gordon.
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Debra Messing (Will & Grace) will star in NBC pilot The Mysteries of Laura. The drama from Warner Bros. Television, Berlanti Productions and Kapital Entertainment is based on a Spanish series about a female homicide detective.
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Judd Hirsch (Taxi) will co-star in ABC pilot Forever, as the best friend of an immortal medical examiner, from Lin Pictures in association with Warner Bros. Television.
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Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow) will star in Fox hip hop drama Empire, reports Variety. The Butler’s Lee Daniels will direct, and Danny Strong write.
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Karen Gillan (Doctor Who) will star in ABC pilot Selfie, about a self-obsessed twentysomething.
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Wendell Pierce (The Wire) joins season two of Showtime drama Ray Donovan, in the recurring role of a down-on-his-luck parole officer.
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Ryan McPartlin (Passions) will appear on new USA series Playing House as a hunky officer. The Universal Cable Productions show premieres this spring.
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BROADWAY
The Bridges of Madison County opens tonight on Broadway with Kelli O’Hara and Steven Pasquale.
http://ppc.broadway.com/buzz/174608/happy-opening-night-to-sexy-farmhouse-lovers-kelli-ohara-and-steven-pasquale-and-the-entire-cast-of-the-bridges-of-madison-county/
FIRST LOOK/ ON TV/ BROADWAY
January 30, 2014FIRST LOOK
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CNN: The Sixties (Premiere) at 9pm
USA: White Collar (Finale) at 9pm
NBC‘s low-rated Thursday comedy Sean Saves the World has ceased production, 14 episodes into its 18-ep order. Last Thursday, the show earned a .7/2 rating; an SNL clips show airs in its time slot tonight. “Looking forward to Obama’s minimum wage increase to $10/hr,” tweeted series star Sean Hayes after the news broke.
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E! late night talk show Chelsea Lately will simulcast on radio’s Raw Dog SiriusXM Comedy Hits channel starting Tuesday, February 18. President of E! Suzanne Kolb cited the net’s “ongoing efforts to provide fans new ways to engage with our shows across all platforms” as the reason for the move. The 11p show will also be available through the SiriusXM app and online at siriusxm.com.
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E! is also teaming with Bud Light for Super Bowl party coverage. The net will report from the Bud Light Hotel (aka a 4028-person Norwegian Getaway cruise ship, docked along NYC’s West Side), offering fans a multi-platform experience covering concerts, celebrity interviews and “the hottest parties.” Said Blaise D’Sylva, VP of sports, media and entertainment marketing, Anheuser-Busch, “Our partnership with E! will allow us to take the Bud Light Hotel experience and share it with fans across the country.”
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The music of Bob Dylan will be featured in a Super Bowl commercial for Chobani, and the man himself will appear in an ad for Chrysler, according to the Hollywood Reporter. While the music legend is hardly high profile, he has appeared in commercials before, for brands including Pepsi, Cadillac and Victoria’s Secret.
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SodaStream wasn’t happy about editing its Super Bowl ad, which included a mention of rival (and Super Bowl halftime sponsor) Pepsi. “This is the kind of stuff that happens in China,” SodaStream CEO Daniel Birnbaum told USA Today, after being asked to cut the Pepsi reference. Silver lining? The controversy has pushed viewing of the uncut ad on the company’s YouTube site through the roof.
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In a new survey from research firm Leger, 71 percent of people polled said they planned to watch the Super Bowl – and one quarter are more interested in the commercials than the game. Nearly one-quarter of the 1000 respondents predict Budweiser will have the best ad. (Spoiler alert? click here.)
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CNN is airing a special, Jay Leno: Mr. Comedy, the week before the Tonight Show host ends his NBC run. The special highlighting the comic’s “amazing life and success” airs Friday, January 31 at 10p; Leno bids adieu Thursday, February 6.
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Lance Bass, an exec producer and creator of upcoming Lifetime series Celebrity Home Raiders, tells Cynopsis he got the inspiration for the show from his boy band days. “We were digging around the storage facilities for *NSYNC and found tons of stuff that the group had used on tour over the years,” Bass says. “I thought, ‘Wow, I wonder what this stuff is worth!’ which led me to think about items and memorabilia my friends might have saved, and how we could potentially raise money for charity by auctioning things off.” The show from DiGa Vision and Leftfield Pictures – premieres Thursday, March 6 at 10p.
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Season two of E!‘s Total Divas returns Sunday, March 16 at 9p. The Bunim-Murray production averaged 836,000 viewers A18-49 and 1.3 million total viewers in its first go-round.
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Mark Wahlberg will host the 27th annual Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Awards Saturday, March 29 at 8p. Last year’s fanfest delivered 5.8 million viewers; past hosts trying to dodge the slime included Jack Black, Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz.
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Nominees were announced for the 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards. Miranda Lambert and Tim McGraw led the pack with seven nods; American Idol judge Keith Urban scored six. The show, hosted by Luke Bryan and Lambert’s husband, The Voice host Blake Shelton, airs on CBS Sunday, April 6 at 8p.
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ABC ordered The Winklers to series. The Walcott Company comedy, from Phil Rosenthal (Everybody Loves Raymond), Max Winkler, the son of Happy Days star Henry Winkler, and Rob Reinis, is based on the Winklers’ lives.
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Lifetime had its best January delivery in six years among total viewers. The premiere of original movie Flowers in the Attic did its part, drawing 6.1 million viewers, according to Nielsen, to make it ad-supported cable’s number one telecast of the night and most-watched original movie since November 2012.
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BROADWAY
Bryan Cranston is headed to Broadway in All The Way.
http://ppc.broadway.com/buzz/174308/hes-on-broadway-bitch-emmy-winner-bryan-cranston-on-going-from-drug-dealer-to-president/
BRADLEY COOPER HEADED BACK TO BROADWAY IN THE ELEPHANT MAN
January 23, 2014BRADLEY COOPER HEADED BACK TO BROADWAY IN THE ELEPHANT MAN
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FIRST LOOK/ ON TV/ PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS/ BROADWAY
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AXS TV: Gotham City Live (Premiere) at 10pm
BIO: You Gotta Eat Here! (Premiere) at 10pm
HISTORY: Appalachian Outlaws (Premiere) at 10pm
IFC: The Spoils of Babylon (Premiere) at 10pm
SPORTSMAN: MeatEater (Premiere) at 8pm
A&E: Rodeo Girls (Finale) at 10pm
LIFETIME: Project Runway All Stars (Finale) at 9pm
TLC: Gypsy Sisters (Finale) at 9pm
Sasheer Zamata wasn’t the only talent discovered during Saturday Night Live‘s search for an African-American female cast member. LaKendra Tookes and Leslie Jones were impressive enough during auditions to be been hired as SNL writers and start Monday, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Zamata’s first on-air appearance on the late-night NBC sketch show is January 18.
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Nancy Kerrigan will return to the Olympics as a figure skating analyst for NBC in Sochi. The former Olympian, who won a silver medal in 1994, seven weeks after being attacked with a baton, will also make appearances on other NBCUniversal shows. The Olympics begin Friday, February 6.
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The Fashion Police feud may be cooling down. After an official NLRB election, E! said Wednesday it is ready to negotiate with the Writers Guild over the show’s striking writers, who want to be repped by Guild. “We continue to believe that the secret ballot election was vital to protecting the rights of all Fashion Police writers,” E! said in a statement to The Wrap.
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The winter premiere of ABC Family‘s Pretty Little Liars was the most-tweeted premiere in U.S. TV history, with more than 1.3 million tweets by nearly 473,000 unique contributors.
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E! is offering a double dose of reality with the season nine premiere of Keeping Up with the Kardashians and series debut of #RichKids on Sunday, January 19 at 9p and 10p, followed by new eps of both shows again on Monday, January 20.
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A&E’s Bad Ink comes back for a sophomore season with the “aficionados of terrible tattoos” on a quest to fix the worst ink in Vegas. Sharp Entertainment production returns Monday, January 20 at 9p.
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The Real Housewives of New York City are back – and there’s a new diva in town. Model/entrepreneur Kristen Taekman will be introduced in a 30-minute sneak peek of season six on February 24 at 9p, with the series’ official start Tuesday, March 11 at 9p. Original cast member LuAnn De Lesseps was bumped down to recurring status.
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Today‘s Matt Lauer will host a special celebrating the upcoming 71st Annual Golden Globes featuring interviews with stars including Brad Pitt, Bradley Cooper and Bryan Cranston. Special airs Friday, January 10 at 8p; the Globes are telecast live on NBC Sunday, January 12 at 8p.
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NBC Owned Television Stations are pumping up coverage ahead of the Globes, too. 1st Look: Red Carpet Ready examines fashion trends early evening Saturday; 1st Look: Hollywood’s Biggest Party peeks at plans for the Globes after-bash after SNL. The centerpiece? 1st Look LIVE on the Red Carpet at 6p, leading to NBC’s pre-show coverage at 7p.
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Rainn Wilson (The Office) moves from Scranton to Portland for Backstrom, a crime drama he’s set to star in for Fox. Wilson will play a cantankerous detective on the show, based on a book series by Sweden’s Leif G.W. Persson. The show had originally been at CBS, but failed to make it to series.
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Sons of Anarchy‘s Drea de Matteo has been upped to series regular, reports TVLine. The seventh and final season of the FX drama is set for a fall 2014 launch.
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ABC‘s Killer Women debuted DOA Tuesday night, with 3.9 million total viewers and a .9 rating/2 share among A18-49. Lucky 7 was chopped from the timeslot this fall after premiering to 4.4 million viewers and a 1.3 rating.
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CBS‘s NCIS scored 20.7 million viewers, its largest audience of the season. In its post-NCIS preview slot, Intelligence hung onto 16.6 million of those viewers at 9p, making it the season’s most-watched debut. The sci-fi action series moves to Mondays at 10p next week.
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The season three 9p premiere and 11p repeat of VH1‘s Single Ladies on Monday delivered 3.5 million total viewers. In primetime, the net was number one in cable, excluding sports, among A18-49, W18-49 and W18-34.
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Pretty Little Liars‘ Tuesday winter premiere on ABC Family at 8p was Tuesday’s number one telecast in W18-34 (900,000/2.7 rating), viewers 12-34 (2.1 million/2.3) and Females 12-34 (1.8 million/3.9). At 9p, Ravenswood was TV’s top telecast in Females 12-24 (951,000/2.1), and cable’s number one telecast in W18-34 (508,000/1.5).
(Source: Cynopsis)
The Haves and the Have Nots season two premiere on Tuesday delivered 2.8 million total viewers, becoming the most-watched season premiere in OWN history across all key demos. The sudsy drama posted double-digit growth in W25-54 (up 59 percent) and total viewers (up 57 percent) versus the season one premiere in May, and was the number two telecast in OWN history among W25-54, after Oprah’s Next Chapter with Bobbi Kristina in March 2011.
(Source: Cynopsis)
MTV‘s Teen Wolf returned for the second half of season three on Monday for its most-watched telecast ever, delivering 2.4 million total viewers. Its 2.3 rating among P12-34 matched the series high. Follow-up show Wolf Watch held over 60 percent of its lead-in, for a 1.4 P12-34 rating.
(Source: Cynopsis)
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS 2014
Here is the winners list.
http://www.peopleschoice.com/pca/awards/nominees/
BROADWAY
Tupac Shakur Musical Holler If Ya Hear Me coming in Spring 2014.
http://ppc.broadway.com/buzz/173941/tupac-shakur-musical-to-holler-on-broadway-this-spring-dates-theater-set/
